Architecture Archives

Database Name: ARCHNEW2

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Repository	Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives
Record Group	Shear Collection
Title/Folder Name
Architect/Creator	Shear, John Knox / Frank Lloyd Wright
Project Name
Project Location
Project type
Project Client
Description	1 memo / 1 galley / 3 correspondence / 7 copies of articles [bA-Z]
Date of Origin	1955
Notes	Papers re Shear’s Architectural Record editorial taking Wright to task for public criticism of Air Force Academy buildings. Correspondence includes letter from Shear and two autograph letters from Frank Lloyd Wright. See Anthony Alofsin, ed., Frank Loyd Wright: An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence, 5 vols. (New York: Garland, 1988). Alofsin records letter from Shear as A156B08 (8/17/55); and letters from Wright as A156B05 (8/13/55), and A156C05 (9/10/55). Gift of Mrs. Margaret Curry, 1999.